ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known doctors revealed that his family came from a rags-to-riches background. Oncologist Tony Mok Shu-kam, also known as a TV host and magazine columnist, revealed the extraordinary early life of his father.
When Mok Senior was just eleven, living in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation, he lost his own…
The "one country, two systems" formula was originally designed for Taiwan, rather than Hong Kong, top lawyer Maria Tam said.
It was not China but Britain who didn’t want Hong Kong people to have universal suffrage, the Basic Law drafter added.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s political system has a surprise “expat-friendly” element which makes it uniquely…
HONG KONG'S BRITISH-STYLE legal system will carry on past 2047, the city’s legal chief said yesterday. It will not switch to the civil law system used by mainland China and most countries around the world, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah said last night.
“The ‘one country, two systems’ [policy] will continue, and with it,…
ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known businessman-politicians, Bernard Chan, revealed how a chronic health problem hit him as a teenager—and how learning to paint with a tiny bottle of correction fluid got him back on track.
The convenor of the Executive Council, Hong Kong’s top governing body, told a TV interviewer that he was hit by…
A FORMER WORKER at a Chinese takeaway in the southern English city of Bristol has become a senior leader in China. Leung Chun-ying, who earned £10.50 (US$14) a week selling Chinese food, curry and chips, at a humble high street eatery is now vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top governing…
People in the city on the southern coast of China got rich by moving goods without them ever touching the ground
The community's extraordinary trading skills were highlighted by former Hong Kong leader CY Leung in a new business show, Friday Beyond Spotlights
Hong Kong has become the "super-connector" between the rest of China and…